Anita Sarkeesian Quotes

The media, and how we're taught to read it, has a huge impact on who we become as people.

Sometimes you wonder if television is really affecting the culture.

I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

Nothing is really real unless it “happens” on television…Television has brought an inversion of our consciousness. When we take our eyes off the tube, we see things that are not quite authentic – or rather, which gain authenticity only by their resemblance to how things happen on television

Let’s get real. It does make a difference what children see on television.

Films do have a very big impact on the youth, but the youth do have the quality to differentiate what is right and what is wrong!

People get ideas of how to live or not to live from what you do on television.

I don't regard television as the outside world. I regard it as an artefact.

We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

What we watch on television, we approve.

Television changes you. Therefore it is important what you watch and when you watch.

I don't know if I trust entertainment to teach anyone anything.

I think the media could be a very good force for good, and I think Hollywood can, as well.

We all know we're conditioned from music and television, so for us, we take great privilege in being role models, and having an impressionable audience its important for us to make sure what we're doing is in line with them.

As much as we try to deny it, media plays a huge part in how we view the world.

You often forget, because you're so inside it, that television has power.

By giving students the proper tools to analyze the media they consume, we can empower them to make informed decisions.